Перевті́лення, також інколи перекладається українською як Перетво́рення — оповідання Франца Кафки, написане 17 листопада — 7 грудня 1912. Героєм твору є Ґреґор Замза, який одного дня прокидається, перевтілений у велику комаху. Він хоче жити нормально. На жаль, це неможливо, бо він навіть не може встати з ліжка. Він …
«Проце́с» — роман Франца Кафки, опублікований після його смерті. «Процес» є центральним твором літературної спадщини Кафки. Твір особливий ще й тим, що послужив сюжетом для постмодерного театру та кінематографа. Глави рукопису не було пронумеровано, вони зберігалися в окремих конвертах. Та послідовність, в якій їх …
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never …
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial …
This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of …
Franz Kafka's Diaries, written in German language between 1910-1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. Kafka’s diaries offer a detailed view of the writer's thoughts and feelings, as well as some of his most famous and …
The Great Wall of China is the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1931. It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924. The first …